Home network storage solution

After about 7 years the continues beating my 120 GB WD finally gave up.

Saturday morning press the power button thinking the computer is in sleep mode. Walk by kitchen to get a cup of coffee... still sleepy. WTF, blue background with deathly font froze on screen. I kick and scream but nothing will bring this coaster back.

I knew that my last backup was about 6 month ago... which would include 2 birthdays, 1 vacation and few other events. Work related file were amount the casualty, but most current project is always on my 2 GB USB drive.

so I look online and realize there LOT of different options anything from docking station, enclosures to Network Attach Storage (NAS). I decided to come up with a backup plan for my home office.

Of course my plan will be limit by the cost.

1) Need to have access from more than one computer
2) Security
3) gotta go with RAID (I'll choose 1; mirror)

I like the idea of BYOD (bring your own disk) so it's possible to upgrade to larger size in the future.

you can google to get all the updated review.

Some call it External Drive has full list of different type of NAS.

I am split between 2 "diskless" NAS.

If you want value NAS 2000 ( it was made by Linksys, now "by Cisco").

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D-Link's DNS -323, this has been around for a while, with lot of mod since it's running Linux.


for some reason Synology NAS cost a little more (~$100) but they do have nice to use interface and lot of feature bake into this little thing!


I went with Synology, because I really like their firmware that can do lot of things without me knowning my Linux commands.